And then there's Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia, who many russian players have famously said should be playing in the J-League against Japanese teams rather than Russian teams who hate to travel there.
There was this arrangement with a hockey team from Sakhalin to play in the Japanese league. Unlike russian football, russian hockey has the 7 hour time difference away days on a regular basis. (For a while, there used to be 8 and 9 hour ones, because of international teams)
And as long as we're in that part of the world, say hello to Kunlun Red Star - a team which plays in the Russia's Kontinental Hockey League that's based in Beijing. Teams from Belarus and Kazakhstan also compete in the KHL, as did Finnish side Jokerit until they withdrew from the KHL in 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and returned to competing in the Mestis, the second-division league in Finnish ice hockey.
For Wales, the English league is older than the Welsh league. For Andorra, San Marino, and Liechtenstein, bigger competition. For Monaco, they don’t play in FIFA and money
Worth noting in the English lower leagues you have teams from the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands which are considered Crown Dependencies and not part of UK (they do not have representation with FIFA or UEFA but do have teams for other sporting events such as the Island Games) and due to the distance from the mainland they are required to pay for all teams away travel. Another one in England is Chester City who are an English club for an English city but their pitch is actually entirely in Wales but the club offices are in England which made it complicated during COVID when England and Wales had different restrictions.
Andorra has a somehow "professional" league, but FC Andorra is older than the league itself and it has been affiliated to the Catalan Football Federation for decades. That's the reason why they can play spanish competitions.
correction on the Leicthensteiner(yes steiner) Teams, they CAN Qualify for Champions League competition... BUT they need to win Conference AND Europa League in a row to qualify, which probably will never happen, but y'never know
Don't need to win the Conference League if they can improve their country's coefficient enough. Liechtenstein were 1 spot away from a Europa League qualifier spot for this season (they have since dropped a lot)
Cardiff City and Swansea City play in the Championship (tier 02 of English football), Wrexham play in League 01 (tier 03), Newport County play in League 02 (tier 04) and Merthyr Town play in Southern Premier South (tier 07) - they are the 5 Welsh teams play in English football.
There is also Gwalia United who play in the 3rd tier of English Women's Football, they are based in Newport and play at Newport Stadium where Newport County played when they were a non-league side
You also could've included Chihuahua Savage, the two-time defending champions of Major Arena Soccer League - a league that has also included clubs from Saltillo, Tijuana, Monterrey and Hermosillo at one time or another.
0:39 the equivalent to Champions League in South America is the Copa Libertadores. Copa Sudamericana (Copa Sul-Americana in Brazil) is the Europa League of Conmebol (South American Football Confederation)
Where do we stand on Chester FC (a team from England, playing in the English system, but their stadium is located in Wales)? Like, they compete in their proper country, but also don't.😂
Personal favourite of mine is Chester FC, based in the English city of Chester but the pitch is in Wales while the turnstiles are in England. During the COVID pandemic, it was split between the countries differently lockdown rules making games even more difficult.
@@noahfitrieThere is no reason for NZ to join AFC now that OFC get a guaranteed world cup spot as that's consistent prize money for NZ just for qualifying
1992 Welsh league made then There is also the problem of a cup competition for all Welsh clubs. Until 1996, English clubs could join the Welsh Cup, but only clubs located in Wales, like Wrexham, could qualify for Europe, but Welsh clubs located in England could qualify, like TNS (who have no fans, and the clubs that merged to make the thing don't like it; Bangor should have farmed the league instead). After that, the FAW Premier Cup was made for top Welsh clubs, but you couldn't get into Europe through it, so the competition was not popular. After that, Merthyr [town], Newport, and Wrexham went back into the Welsh Cup and lost, and the next season it was said they couldn't qualify for Europe even if they did win. Then Swansea got into Europe, which completely cut off big Welsh clubs from the Welsh association with the hopes of qualifying for Europe through England again. During this time they were occasionally invited to compete in the league cup, and now there are talks going on about Europe again. Massive mess is the short story Mae ene ddim rheswm i pethau fod mor stupid.
Before Perth Glory joined the A-League, a Perth team called Perth Kangaroos played in the Singapore league for one season. They won the league in a canter but folded at the end of the first season. Perth Glory were admitted to the NSL a year later
1 thing to note, DPMM play in the SPL only because the Brunei league is just straight up bad and if they played in the Brunei league, they'd be farming the competition
The Welsh/English mess is largely because, apart from an attempt in the 1920s, Wales had no national football league until the early 1990s and the main Welsh clubs are over 100 years older than that and were well-established in the English system. After the fall of Communism in 1990, when the USSR, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia broke up the new countries wanted to compete internationally and UEFA/FIFA said “OK but you’ve got to have a domestic league” - then it was noticed that Wales had been playing internationals since the 1870s without one, so they had to have a national league system too.
Theres 1 more welsh team playing in england that you failed to mention: Merthyr Town, they play in the 6th tier of England. I did an FM save with them and made them the best club in England which was fun
As a season ticket holder for both Dallas Sidekicks and Mesquite Outlaws of Major Arena Soccer League, I very much enjoyed road trips to Monterrey (Raza/Furia/Flash), Saltillo (Rancho Seco), and Hermosillo (Sonora Soles).
This is a fascinating and great video! It's funny as TFC got me into ⚽️ in 2007 but I'd rather focus my domestic ⚽️ viewing on the Canadian Premier League once that started.
They are allowed in the Australia Cup but on the condition, they play all there games away in Australia while their reserve teams are allowed to compete in the Chatham Cup (NZ Men's domestic cup) and Kate Shepard Cup (NZ Domestic Women's Cup) also while The Reserve teams auto qualify for the National Phase for the National League they cannot qualify for the final even if they finish in the top 2
In England we have 4 teams from Wales playing in England we have Cardiff City, Swansea City, Wrexham and Newport County where as in Scotland there’s a team now Lowland League part of Non-League Berwick Rangers who are from England
There are actually 5 Welsh Clubs in the English Men's Pyramid, Cardiff City, Swansea City, Wrexham AFC, Newport County and Merthyr Town and in the Women's Pyramid there is Newport based Gwalia United
There has been Welsh league from 1900 with Central Wales football league, 1904 Welsh league division one, only South Wales clubs, Cardiff City, Swansea City and Newport County did have reserves and Montgomerysgire football league.
He talks about the A-league teams could play against Saudi clubs where the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo play but in reality, the will only be able to play them if they reach the final. The Afc Champions League is split into East and West and the A-league is part of the East. But they still have the J-league and the K-League to compete against so yeah
I got way off the rails talking about the Seville and River Plate USL teams in Puerto Rico and just decided to save PR for a different video altogether.
I‘m nerdy enough that I wrote a document fixing Asia. There‘s 8 slots in the new system right. So, Asia splits into East and West probably along the line of India. OFC merges into the new East-Asia Pacific confederation. In a confederation that still has Japan, South Korea and Australia then thats all fine. Meanwhile, West Asia adds the North African Arab countries, and also takes a spot with it. So 5 spots in a confederation that includes Saudi, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia is probably about right. Rest of Africa drops down to 4 spots.
You really wanted to mention The copa sudamericana, that is The Second level club competition in south america, or You were trying to mention The copa libertadores, that is The major club competition in south america
Someday Sacramento Republic FC and other American cities that cannot get a MLS team will play in Canada's top fight ⚽ league, that would be the Canadian Premier League. It work in the 90s when the CFL put football teams in non Canadian cities and but in American cities
That is an awesome idea and I'm all for it. Hell, there are USL teams in Birmingham, Memphis, and Las Vegas. Let's get the CFL band back together for the other form of football north of the border.
don't blame you for saying it wrong but it's pronounced berrick not berwick (no idea why!) and it's nor-thurmberland. other than that it was a good video😁Gretna also reached the Scottish cup final only losing the match on penalties
bros years are all over the place, talks about leagues starting in 2020 and ending in 2015, suspensions starting in 2019 and ending in 2012. hahah wtf did not watch the video back before uploading
19:38 i think u meat 2010? instead of 2020. Singapore lionsxii went to the Malaysia football league While the Malaysian side Harimau Muda went to the Singapore league
To me the MLS owners need to stop bitching about money and swallow their pride and go to a promotion relegation fusing mls with the usl system creating 3 tiers of soccer.
One reason for Berwick playing in Scotland is because it’s right on the border - when England and Scotland were separate kingdoms the town changed hands 13 times from 1296. The town’s been in England since 1482, but the adjacent county of Berwickshire’s in Scotland.
Football historically only refers to a game with a ball where you run instead of playing while riding a horse. The original name of the sport was Association Football, and there are numerous short forms of the name. That includes soccer, football, and footy.
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And then there's Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia, who many russian players have famously said should be playing in the J-League against Japanese teams rather than Russian teams who hate to travel there.
There was this arrangement with a hockey team from Sakhalin to play in the Japanese league. Unlike russian football, russian hockey has the 7 hour time difference away days on a regular basis. (For a while, there used to be 8 and 9 hour ones, because of international teams)
When some Russians think Russia is too big:
And as long as we're in that part of the world, say hello to Kunlun Red Star - a team which plays in the Russia's Kontinental Hockey League that's based in Beijing. Teams from Belarus and Kazakhstan also compete in the KHL, as did Finnish side Jokerit until they withdrew from the KHL in 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and returned to competing in the Mestis, the second-division league in Finnish ice hockey.
Cool to know
@@BroadwayJoe99 Red Star have been playing on the outskirts of Moscow since covid with no timeline for when they will return to China
I'm suprised the Earthquakes aren't on this list since they play like soccer is completely foreign to them. (I'm one of their biggest fans.)
For Wales, the English league is older than the Welsh league.
For Andorra, San Marino, and Liechtenstein, bigger competition.
For Monaco, they don’t play in FIFA and money
Worth noting in the English lower leagues you have teams from the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands which are considered Crown Dependencies and not part of UK (they do not have representation with FIFA or UEFA but do have teams for other sporting events such as the Island Games) and due to the distance from the mainland they are required to pay for all teams away travel. Another one in England is Chester City who are an English club for an English city but their pitch is actually entirely in Wales but the club offices are in England which made it complicated during COVID when England and Wales had different restrictions.
Andorra has a somehow "professional" league, but FC Andorra is older than the league itself and it has been affiliated to the Catalan Football Federation for decades. That's the reason why they can play spanish competitions.
correction on the Leicthensteiner(yes steiner) Teams, they CAN Qualify for Champions League competition... BUT they need to win Conference AND Europa League in a row to qualify, which probably will never happen, but y'never know
Don't need to win the Conference League if they can improve their country's coefficient enough. Liechtenstein were 1 spot away from a Europa League qualifier spot for this season (they have since dropped a lot)
I never thought about that situation as a possibility but I'm now I want to see FC Vaduz somehow pull off that feat.
I can remember one of their teams playing Liverpool in the European Cup.
@@kiwihib that was PRE Conference League forming though
Cardiff City and Swansea City play in the Championship (tier 02 of English football), Wrexham play in League 01 (tier 03), Newport County play in League 02 (tier 04) and Merthyr Town play in Southern Premier South (tier 07) - they are the 5 Welsh teams play in English football.
There is also Gwalia United who play in the 3rd tier of English Women's Football, they are based in Newport and play at Newport Stadium where Newport County played when they were a non-league side
You also could've included Chihuahua Savage, the two-time defending champions of Major Arena Soccer League - a league that has also included clubs from Saltillo, Tijuana, Monterrey and Hermosillo at one time or another.
I still remember Monterrey La Raza beating the Sacramento Knights in the 1995 CISL championship.
Al-Hilal omdurman is currently plays in the Mauritanian league due to the war in Sudan
0:39 the equivalent to Champions League in South America is the Copa Libertadores. Copa Sudamericana (Copa Sul-Americana in Brazil) is the Europa League of Conmebol (South American Football Confederation)
Where do we stand on Chester FC (a team from England, playing in the English system, but their stadium is located in Wales)?
Like, they compete in their proper country, but also don't.😂
I believe the car park is in England. A tough one to call
Chester is a tough call as its right on the edge of the border
Personal favourite of mine is Chester FC, based in the English city of Chester but the pitch is in Wales while the turnstiles are in England. During the COVID pandemic, it was split between the countries differently lockdown rules making games even more difficult.
Hong Kong Premier League has teams based in Mainland China from time to time.
Was supposed to be about teams not playing in their own country, spent way too much time on amateur teams in their own country
Im Aussie and think the NZ teams should be able to play in AFC CL. They play in AFC competition so i dont see the issue personally
Hopefully NZ join AFC
@@noahfitrieThere is no reason for NZ to join AFC now that OFC get a guaranteed world cup spot as that's consistent prize money for NZ just for qualifying
Bahrain still hasn’t gotten over losing the 2010 playoff to the All Whites
1992 Welsh league made then There is also the problem of a cup competition for all Welsh clubs. Until 1996, English clubs could join the Welsh Cup, but only clubs located in Wales, like Wrexham, could qualify for Europe, but Welsh clubs located in England could qualify, like TNS (who have no fans, and the clubs that merged to make the thing don't like it; Bangor should have farmed the league instead). After that, the FAW Premier Cup was made for top Welsh clubs, but you couldn't get into Europe through it, so the competition was not popular. After that, Merthyr [town], Newport, and Wrexham went back into the Welsh Cup and lost, and the next season it was said they couldn't qualify for Europe even if they did win. Then Swansea got into Europe, which completely cut off big Welsh clubs from the Welsh association with the hopes of qualifying for Europe through England again. During this time they were occasionally invited to compete in the league cup, and now there are talks going on about Europe again. Massive mess is the short story Mae ene ddim rheswm i pethau fod mor stupid.
love this content. Amazed you didn't mention FC Edmonton and the modern NASL. Hope to see you do a video on that lawsuit coming up!
Shout out Tomi Ameobi.
Before Perth Glory joined the A-League, a Perth team called Perth Kangaroos played in the Singapore league for one season. They won the league in a canter but folded at the end of the first season. Perth Glory were admitted to the NSL a year later
1 thing to note, DPMM play in the SPL only because the Brunei league is just straight up bad and if they played in the Brunei league, they'd be farming the competition
Very good video! I learne d a LOT and had a few laughs!
The Welsh/English mess is largely because, apart from an attempt in the 1920s, Wales had no national football league until the early 1990s and the main Welsh clubs are over 100 years older than that and were well-established in the English system. After the fall of Communism in 1990, when the USSR, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia broke up the new countries wanted to compete internationally and UEFA/FIFA said “OK but you’ve got to have a domestic league” - then it was noticed that Wales had been playing internationals since the 1870s without one, so they had to have a national league system too.
Theres 1 more welsh team playing in england that you failed to mention: Merthyr Town, they play in the 6th tier of England.
I did an FM save with them and made them the best club in England which was fun
As a season ticket holder for both Dallas Sidekicks and Mesquite Outlaws of Major Arena Soccer League, I very much enjoyed road trips to Monterrey (Raza/Furia/Flash), Saltillo (Rancho Seco), and Hermosillo (Sonora Soles).
Nice Sac Republic kit. Love the USL representation
I never knew all that about Singapore! Wow, what a palaver!
Great jersey my brother Sacramento FC fan here
This is a fascinating and great video! It's funny as TFC got me into ⚽️ in 2007 but I'd rather focus my domestic ⚽️ viewing on the Canadian Premier League once that started.
Why can't New Zealand A-League teams just be included in the National Cup
They are allowed in the Australia Cup but on the condition, they play all there games away in Australia while their reserve teams are allowed to compete in the Chatham Cup (NZ Men's domestic cup) and Kate Shepard Cup (NZ Domestic Women's Cup) also while The Reserve teams auto qualify for the National Phase for the National League they cannot qualify for the final even if they finish in the top 2
In England we have 4 teams from Wales playing in England we have Cardiff City, Swansea City, Wrexham and Newport County where as in Scotland there’s a team now Lowland League part of Non-League Berwick Rangers who are from England
There are actually 5 Welsh Clubs in the English Men's Pyramid, Cardiff City, Swansea City, Wrexham AFC, Newport County and Merthyr Town and in the Women's Pyramid there is Newport based Gwalia United
Tech and Cavy, are now Dunedin City Royals.
21:59 glad to hear my fav singaporean club mentioned 😊
New Zealand should be in AFC
Won't happen, because they'd lose their free World Cup spot.
Nah Australia needs to go back to to the OFC.
nah southeast asia should merge with ofc and australia
Indonesia mentioned countless times they wanna play in OFC. So, swap?
Just dissolve OFC and let Oceania countries join AFC.
There has been Welsh league from 1900 with Central Wales football league, 1904 Welsh league division one, only South Wales clubs, Cardiff City, Swansea City and Newport County did have reserves and Montgomerysgire football league.
He talks about the A-league teams could play against Saudi clubs where the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo play but in reality, the will only be able to play them if they reach the final. The Afc Champions League is split into East and West and the A-league is part of the East. But they still have the J-league and the K-League to compete against so yeah
Disappointed that Puerto Rico FC didn't get a mention.
I got way off the rails talking about the Seville and River Plate USL teams in Puerto Rico and just decided to save PR for a different video altogether.
@thetouchback good to know. I remember how much of a failure Puerto Rico FC was in the NASL. Hurricane Maria killed the club
Football Manager save ideas go brrrrrrr
The New Saints now play in England
I‘m nerdy enough that I wrote a document fixing Asia. There‘s 8 slots in the new system right. So, Asia splits into East and West probably along the line of India. OFC merges into the new East-Asia Pacific confederation. In a confederation that still has Japan, South Korea and Australia then thats all fine. Meanwhile, West Asia adds the North African Arab countries, and also takes a spot with it. So 5 spots in a confederation that includes Saudi, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia is probably about right. Rest of Africa drops down to 4 spots.
Vaduz, the Liechtenstein team in teh Swiss League, could win the Conference League then the Europa League and then play in the Champion's League
You really wanted to mention The copa sudamericana, that is The Second level club competition in south america, or You were trying to mention The copa libertadores, that is The major club competition in south america
Someday Sacramento Republic FC and other American cities that cannot get a MLS team will play in Canada's top fight ⚽ league, that would be the Canadian Premier League. It work in the 90s when the CFL put football teams in non Canadian cities and but in American cities
That is an awesome idea and I'm all for it. Hell, there are USL teams in Birmingham, Memphis, and Las Vegas. Let's get the CFL band back together for the other form of football north of the border.
@@thetouchback Fun Fact an American Team has won the Grey Cup more recently than a Canadian Team has won the Stanley Cup
don't blame you for saying it wrong but it's pronounced berrick not berwick (no idea why!) and it's nor-thurmberland. other than that it was a good video😁Gretna also reached the Scottish cup final only losing the match on penalties
Antigua is a cricket country anyway.
W shirt from david lim
bros years are all over the place, talks about leagues starting in 2020 and ending in 2015, suspensions starting in 2019 and ending in 2012. hahah wtf did not watch the video back before uploading
This dude cannot stop saying you know every sentence 😭
19:38 i think u meat 2010? instead of 2020.
Singapore lionsxii went to the Malaysia football league
While the Malaysian side Harimau Muda went to the Singapore league
“Y’know”
Brilliant video! But it's pronounced Berrick not Berr wick. Also pronounced North Humber Land.
Following David just for the Scotland top🫡
A-League > all other leagues
Brunei DPMM plays in singapore
To me the MLS owners need to stop bitching about money and swallow their pride and go to a promotion relegation fusing mls with the usl system creating 3 tiers of soccer.
What is this hate for Southeast Asian teams wym rather watch teams from anywhere else 😭😭
Berwick is pronounced Berrick btw.
One reason for Berwick playing in Scotland is because it’s right on the border - when England and Scotland were separate kingdoms the town changed hands 13 times from 1296. The town’s been in England since 1482, but the adjacent county of Berwickshire’s in Scotland.
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Ayyyye rowdies.
Dislike for calling it Soccer
Donf worry the word wont kill you
@@Humptydumpster29it’s called football
It's just a word that it was originally known by
*football
soccer? 😂😂😂
Dont worry you wont die
This video could be 30 seconds long
We (Australia) should force NZ to form an AFL team. If we have to put up with this horrible sport ~ they should too !!!!
St Kilda played a home game in Wellington for 3 seasons from 2013 to 2015
It's football not soccer
Here is a clue you use FOOT to kick the BALL hence it's called FOOTBALL
Why did England invent the word soccer and then use the term interchangeably with football for nearly 100 years?
Football historically only refers to a game with a ball where you run instead of playing while riding a horse. The original name of the sport was Association Football, and there are numerous short forms of the name. That includes soccer, football, and footy.
@@thetouchbackWhy do we use ovens instead of sticks and prayers?